In which we (re)discover another siren of the silver screen of days past.
Next to the word “smoulder” in the dictionary, you might find this picture:
Hanging with the guys…
Hubba. Hubba. Groooowwwwwwlllll.
Any guesses?
Tuesday Proto-Audrey Open Comments
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First for Tuesday!
Mornin’ Gang -
I’m getting more concerned about our survival as a free nation every day. Surely somewhere people are discussing our options for re-invigoration of our state. Maybe Captain Kirk was right – “Beam me up Scotty, there’s no intelligent life down here.” Now, where’s my Lone Star Card – I ran out of chips and dips and beer with weekend football on my 50″ plasma.
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Greta wasn’t a Proto-Audrey. Audrey was a Novo-Greta.
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Cook tops: Gas or Electric?
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G’Morning All
Greta Garbo will be honored on the 100 kronor banknote in 2014 -
If you have natural gas service, definitely gas. I recently purchased this one.
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I been sick. Something came in with the front Friday that didn’t agree with me. Low grade fever, aches, nausea (without hurling), pre and post nasal drip, coughing, no appetite…..Did I leave anything out. Lived for 3 days on 1 bowl of oatmeal Friday and 1/2 mashed potato yesterday. Hope none of y’all get it, today is first day out of bed.
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RIP Mr. Loving. A bigger than life true Texas cowboy.
Goodnight, Mr. Loving!
September 25, 1867
On this day in 1867, legendary cattleman Oliver Loving died of gangrene at Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Loving was born in Kentucky in 1812 and came to Texas in 1843. By 1855 he had moved to the future Palo Pinto County, where he ran a country store and ranched. In 1866, having heard about the probable need for cattle at Fort Sumner, New Mexico, where some 8,000 Indians had been settled on a reservation, Loving gathered a herd, combined it with that of Charles Goodnight, and began a long drive to the fort. Their route later became known as the Goodnight-Loving Trail, although it had been used by other cattlemen. In the spring of 1867 the partners began a new drive, on which Loving received his fatal wound in an Indian attack. Before Loving died Goodnight assured him that his wish to be buried in Texas would be carried out. After a temporary burial at Fort Sumner, while Goodnight drove the herd on to Colorado, Goodnight had Loving’s body exhumed and carried home. Stories differ as to who accompanied the body back to Weatherford, but he was reburied there in Greenwood Cemetery on March 4, 1868. -
Cook tops: Gas or Electric?
Having had a long and successful career in Electrical Engineering, I have to go with my heart.
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Howard Stern interviews the 47% Romney was right.
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Water is the most essential element of life.
Without water, you can’t make coffee. -
Gas.
Unless you get one of those newfangled inductive cooktops. -
Water is the most essential element of life.
Are you kidding?
Fish have sex in that.
Not to mention the Fluoride contaminating our precious bodily fluids. -
#8 OTL
And that’s why McMurtry had Woodrow Call carry Gus McCrae’s body all the way back to Texas. -
Good morning Hamsters. Back to the muglies this morning, 70 and light ground mist makes for discomfort as the morning progresses. Weatherfolk talk about rain by Friday but nothing spectacular in a front.
The Obama 2016 documentary is apparently playing hide and seek with the censors at YouTube. Two links I tried worked briefly but not long enough that the folks I forwarded to could access it. YouTube management is not covering itself in glory with this censorship, other than a pat on the head from the Obamabots who must be terrified of more people seeing it. That of course says a bunch. 🙂 -
Gas or Elec?
+1 for GAS (sure wish this house was plumbed for gas closer than the dang laundry room) -
Texpat
McMurty on my top 10 list -
#7 OTL
Sir, please get well soon! Sorry you are feeling poorly. -
#7 OTL
You are probably among the first to have what will be the fashionable illness for this fall and winter. Get well soon. 🙂 -
As Grandpa used say, “I’m up and taking nourishment now.”
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I’ve never met a real cook that liked electric.
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19 Adee
I have always been on the forefront of fashion, but this time the cutting edge was too much to handle. I may have to change agents. -
Got my flu shot yesterday, extra strength dose because of my age, and now have a sore upper arm and a little bruise at the injection site. Made my day when the pharmacist looked at the consent form and said you can’t be 71, is this for you? Then another lady behind the counter agreed with her. Grinned and told them that it helps to have Irish and Scandinavian ancestry and staying out of the sun. Then mentioned that I wasn’t wearing any makeup. So, today is also a good day, sore arm and all.
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#22 OTL
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now have a sore upper arm and a little bruise at the injection site.
The Marine Corps taught us to massage the shot site for 3 or 4 seconds and then do 5 pushups. Works every time.
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OTL – I hope the mending continues on abated and at a rapid pace!
Cooktop: Definitely gas. My oven is electric, primarily because I didn’t want to have to clean an oven again, and my research when I was looking for items for my kitchen indicated that was the best combination: gas cooktop, electric oven.
I went to Proven Products on Almeda Genoa (not far from Almeda Mall) and got an Italian made, very thin gas cooktop. It’s thin enough that we can put drawers underneath it. Verona was the manufacturer, though the first model I saw had metal handles, and by the time we got around to buying it, the knobs were plastic. I think the owner said that a big box store was going to start selling them, and he was pretty disgusted with that. That could be why I didn’t get the heavy duty metal knobs. It took some looking but we found a double oven there that cleans top/bottom, and has convection as well as the usual features. It has all sorts of fancy electronic settings, which I have yet to learn how to use. -
Okay, this is too funny. I especially love around 3:28 or so.
They may be hungry, but they haven’t lost their creativity. -
That’s a nice stove Hamous.
Thanks to all for the input on the gas/electric question. I’ve always preferred gas, but haven’t had one for many years. Sweetie had gas in Amarillo and misses it. Our 30 year old contractor quality electric has seen far better days.
Soooo, I found this cook top online for half the price of what I could find locally, with free shipping and no sales tax. It arrived last week.
When I bought this house 11 years ago, I coulda sworn there was a capped pipe under the stove top, in addition to the one behind the dryer. I must have had this place confused with others I looked at, because the gas option was high on my criteria list.
I got a $1000 estimate from John Moore, and $550 from a Ma/Pa outfit. One dude told me he’d need a building permit and it would cost at least $1500. (I think he must have been in my stash.)
So gas it is! It’s worth the extra nickel to me. -
#27 Tedtam
That should be the closing scene for Glee. Whoops, wrong show, my bad. -
#27 TT
These kids get it, these kids nailed it. Love it. -
I’m pleasantly surprised to find no discussion of the blown call by the replacement referees in last night’s NFL football game. Most of my daily blogs have incorporated a story as to how incompetent these officials are, but IMHO, most miss the point. My point is that I’ve long felt the outcome of NFL games is rigged as the referees seem to have an extraordinary influence on their outcomes. These replacement guys are just not as good at hiding it as the real pros refs are. Oh I forgot, no one gambles on NFL games.
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OTL: Welcome back to the land of the less physically sick, mentally may be a different story.
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no one gambles on NFL games
Those who do fail to heed the wagonburner’s pigskin prognostication postulate:
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#32 El Gordo
Yes, Green Bay has a legitimate beef. That last one was just the most outrageous call of the evening. Lay it at the owners’ feet since it is a lockout and not a strike. I believe they ultimately hold the purse strings. Several players all across the league are reported to have said it’s time for all of them to chip in and fund the return of the regular officials. IMHO that makes too much sense and would be a thumb in the eye of the league brass, richly deserved. 🙂 -
Texanadian posted this yesterday and it is well worthy of repeating today, and every day for that matter:
In Arab culture loyalty is to family first, clan second, then tribe and finally — and only notionally — to something as abstract as a nation. Anyone who is not a member of your tribe, clan or family, is a potential enemy — and taking advantage of enemies is simply good sense. Indeed there is no concept of the peculiarly Western and particularly American idea of “fair play.”
Weakness is not something to be protected but despised — and taken advantage of.Would that our State Department understand this concept and respond accordingly. The State Department is one terlit bowl that desperately needs to be flushed.
Let’s put a little perspective on the block quote; the middle east is a region where for the last 5000 years or so one clan or tribe would fight another to the death over water and grass in one of the harshest regions on the planet. There was not enough water and grass to support both (clans or tribes) therefore one had to be eliminated – a negotiated settlement was not considered. This civilization is as different from ours as Chinese language is different from English. Unless and until this reality is recognized by our “leadership” and acted upon accordingly, the possibility of anything resembling peace or reasonable behavior is not achievable. -
WTH!?! I can
notbelieve our Dear Leader made this statement!
Muslims have suffered the most at the hands of extremism.
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#36 Bonecrusher
We can summarize: They are Martians.
The way they think is foreign to our culture that they may as well be from another planet.
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These kids better get out of there before the SWAT team arrives.
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#37 TT
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Gas vs Electric: I prefer a gas stove top for convenience and speed of action; When I am ready to cook it is intolerable to have to wait 60-90 seconds to get the burner hot, then another round to get the pan hot, further, temp control is easier. As far as the oven goes, electric is nice for temp control, but gas is still way more efficient. My understanding is that one can completely incinerate any oven spillage with a gas oven, not so much with electric.
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#39 Bob: You knocked that one out of the park, well done, sir.
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#43 – The English language is sadly lacking adequate expletives for me to even attempt comment…………………Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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This is a great example of changing education to be better, and not just throwing money at a problem.
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Well, now we know why TBO can’t meet with Netanyahu:
The reasoning was explained that way to the New York Times.
“Mr. Obama was scheduled to attend a reception for world leaders at the United Nations on Monday night. But a campaign adviser acknowledged privately that in this election year, campaigning trumped meetings with world leaders. ‘Look, if he met with one leader, he would have to meet with 10,’ the aide said, speaking on the condition of anonymity,” the Times reports today.I guess doing his job and meeting with world leaders is above his pay grade or something.
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Pennsylvania High School band celebrates the revolution that brought to power a regime that killed over 100million people.
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Question: Hubby and I met with a financial planner guy to see what to do with our much-reduced IRA accounts. He’s trying to sell us a annuity, guaranteed not to lose principal (which we’ve lost much of already, so it’s a sensitive subject for us). I don’t know if, at our age, an annuity is the best option, or to keep it in a stock-based IRA. The annuity will be capped, depending upon the market, but it will average about 4% a year. After ten years, we can pull our principal out without penalties.
We have put most of our money into our rental properties, which are cash flowing and should provide us income well into our retirement. We want to do something with our IRA cash to supplement this income.
This is not my forte. I’m looking to see if any of you on the Couch can offer sound advice. My gut is to wait until after the elections. Depending upon who wins, we can either go stock route, which I think will make more money, or into the annuity, which will protect the principal. Right now, it’s sitting in a money market account, treading water. -
#49 Tedtam
Understand that all these people peddling annuities do it for one primary reason.
Annuities pay huge commissions.
Do some more due diligence before buying that annuity.
You don’t have to go with these people, but I trust them. They may be too conservative for you, but they are fee-based (not working to make commissions off of you) and will give you straight advice. They have a local representative.
Another thing: Edelman is opening up an online investing program for anyone with as little as $5,000 in January. All the other investment institutions are raising their minimums and locking out most people. -
I just know there are some computer geek types here
A trip down memory lane
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#51 – My ‘geekiness’ don’t go THAT far back!
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Capitalism. Its the natural state of the human race.
Students said some of their peers are buying the contraband liquid for 50 cents and squeezing it into cartons of white milk to give it flavor. It’s their way of coping with a ban on flavored milk — and a long list of other items — that took effect Aug.
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Tex, I learned BASIC on a brand new Radio Shack TRS Model 80 while I was in radio and learned FORTRAN on a much older computer while in college. When I cut my hair and got a real job, it was installing and maintaining these.
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#54: I started out on a Com 64 learning Basic. That was about as far as I got. Moved up to a Mac, which I really liked, but business drove me to a PC and that’s all I use now. I still have a soft spot for Mac’s though. A nostalga thing I guess.
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Guess I shouldn’t have mentioned a Mac… killed the blog. Sorry 🙁
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#49 TT
Agree with Texpat on annuities and think his suggestion to investigate Edelman is a sound one. In these wacky times, conservative thinking/planning/investing is prudent. -
#57 I confess… I shot the blog.
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#49 TT
Agree with your inclination to wait until after the election. If we have President Romney the stock and other markets will go nuts in a tsunami of pent-up cash unleashed. 🙂 Am thinking the market advances this year are symptoms of wishin’ and hopin’ for ABO. If Obama stays, the markets will be depressed along with the rest of us. 🙁 -
I want to make sure that everyone knows that a really nasty round of inflation is right around the corner; this is an economic fact because we have printed and borrowed way too much money. We have essentially decreased the value of each dollar by x percent with each additional dollar that was printed and by a little less than x with each dollar borrowed. I say this to illustrate that the higher price that will likely come in the market does not represent increased value, it represents the decrease in value of that which we use to buy those stocks. The suggestion is to make sure that you can lock in any long term debt you have at these historic low rates, and secondarily buy gold, silver, ammo and firearms but only after you have minimized your debt.
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#55 Shannon
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#55 Shannon: I only got through the first page and now I gotsta leave, dammit. That website is bookmarked for future reference. Nice find, thanks
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#49; 61; et al. The only reason the stock market is retaining its value is that the Fed is pumping all the money it can print out there, and with 0% interest rates, there is no other place for it to go – it forces the investor to take additional risk (stocks) versus more traditionally secure investments such at T-Bill and the like. You are probably well served by owning rentals provided the taxing authorities don’t force rents out of the range of potential renters. I personally like the precious metals for purposes of wealth preservation (“wealth” is a misnomer for me personally) as raging inflation has to be right around the corner with all the Fed printing. The outcome of the coming election should really not have much influence in the markets in the short term as most of the damage that has been done to the economy will require enactment of longer term solutions to get businesses up and running again, if that is still possible in this country. You can bet that the Dems are not going to give up on all the progress they have made to socialize this country easily. Stay away from any “financial advisor” who has something for sale, unless as noted by BC, it’s firearms, ammo, food, or precious metals (and don’t forget to take possession of anything like that you buy – paper is paper – if you don’t hold it, you don’t own it anymore) See Jon Corzine for example. Good luck
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Wired is a great magazine. It’s like most of them though; you have to be nimble and step around the poop.
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And for some unknown reason I’ve always found Corning to be an interesting company.
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I may have been a glass blower in a previous life. 🙂
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Now this is neat; 8 Most Underrated Personal Defense Handguns.
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#68 – It “would be” a neat-o link if it didn’t load all skewed farrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr to the right so far I can’t read the article or view the slides
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We’re going to shoot the daughter’s new S&W .38 Special + P Airweight this weekend.
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All i could see was the slide show. No descriptions. -
My 69 & 71 – finally got IE to load it straight – the description box is to the right of the slide show
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Don’t know what’s the problem, but my guns from list; Bond Arms Snake Slayer in 45/410, Makarov 9 MM, North American Arms Mini-Revolver, 22/22Mag
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OK so Hal will not get the Vapors when I post THREE links, the last one is the Ruger SP 101, in 357 Mag.
FWIW; Bone crusher has a Browning 9 MM Hi-Power, the last of Brownings designs and one of the finest 9 MM’s ever made.
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#70 Shannon, a man after my own heart, the Mini 14 is one of my favorites, the Boy almost melted the dang barrel shooting a 30 round clip. The Mini 14 and the old Makarov was the Boy’s favorites back in the day. We ran over 4500 rounds through the Makarov ($2.56 a box of 50) and at least 2000 rounds through the mini 14, (Malaysian surplus Ball ammo, $175 for a spam can of 820 rounds) . 😉
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Welp, Ole Dave been done kilt tha blog! 🙁
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Dang, Dammit! I just scrolled up to see this;
Question: Hubby and I met with a financial planner guy to see what to do with our much-reduced IRA accounts. He’s trying to sell us an annuity, guaranteed not to lose principal (which we’ve lost much of already, so it’s a sensitive subject for us). I don’t know if, at our age, an annuity is the best option, or to keep it in a stock-based IRA. The annuity will be capped, depending upon the market, but it will average about 4% a year. After ten years, we can pull our principal out without penalties.
RUN, don’t walk away for this CROOK!!!
I’m NOT a financial planner but I’m also NOT an IDIODT! The main reason you might like an annuity is that is tax deferred, guess what? 401K’s and IRA’s are also tax deferred, so the ONLY difference is that you get to pay the CROOK a BIG commission! I’ve never had any dealings with Steve Drake who is a REAL financial planner but he’d say to ask this question, if I buy it today and sell it tomorrow will I lose any money? FWIW: He used to be on 700 AM @ noon I think. -
My #77, if anyone is still here, NO HONEST broker, planner etc will EVER sell you an annuity within a retirement account, IE 401K, IRA.
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#68 SD: I also own the NAA .22mag:>)
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He wasn’t touting the “tax deferral” aspect of the investment, as it was already within the IRA. he was pushing the “you won’t lose your principal” aspect.
I don’t listen to Drake often, but I’ve heard him warn people off of annuities. That’s primarily what gave me pause – that and the fact that I’ve been pushed into making knee-jerk decisions by Hubby before, that ended up not being good decisions. As I’ve said, “if it’s a good idea today, it’ll be a good idea tomorrow”. -
OK I give up!!
He wasn’t touting the “tax deferral” aspect of the investment, as it was already within the IRA. he was pushing the “
you won’t lose your principalI’ll make a BUTT load of money UP FRONT! IE RIGHT NOW” aspect.Please re-read my posts, and after that, you still think that I’m an Idiot, please, please, find an honest broker!,…SIGH 🙁
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I think that I need a translator, an anniuity has EXTRA costs BECAUSE it’s tax deferred, an IRA or 401K is tax deferred without any cost!!
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Oh, no, I’m not disagreeing with any of you at all. You are, however, confirming the warnings from that little voice in my head.
I also found a couple of interesting things on the innernet. It seems the owner has played a little fast and loose with the structure and cash flow of the company, enough to get sued. I also found a rating site where 43% of their customers were dissatisfied, most of them muchly so. I don’t mind finding a few dissatisfied customers, but when that many have problems – I don’t want to become one of them. -
Where the He!! is Low Rents, he knows about this stuff!
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#79 Bones, I knew that you were a smart dude. 😀
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The feeling is mutual SD. I have carried (without permit) the little NAA when discretion dictated that I carry something with a little more reach than my pocket knife.
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Watched the first episode of “Vegas” with Dennis Quaid. I’ve always like him, and the show is pretty good, too.
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Re: gas cooktops. I bought Mrs. Shamaal a 36″ Kitchenaid glass cooktop and she is immensely pleased with it, if I was purchasing again I’d go with the 36″ GE Profile, it has a switch that turns off the controls so little hands cannot accidentally turn on the gas.
What we were looking for is as smooth and as flat a surface as possible for ease of cleaning. For those who clean theircooktops after every use, units like Hamous #6 are absolutely great, For others who may let a cooktop go a week before cleaning, the flatter the surface, the easier the cleaning. I was concerned the glass would be an issue, but there hasn’t been any problems or issues. -
If we have President Romney the stock and other markets will go nuts in a tsunami of pent-up cash unleashed. Am thinking the market advances this year are symptoms of wishin’ and hopin’ for ABO. If Obama stays, the markets will be depressed along with the rest of us.
DJIA at start of Presidencies.
January 2001 10587
January 2009 8077
Today 13460
Based on performance, once again Republicans are tough on the markets. A 5000 run up in points since 2009 isn’t because of hope Romney would get elected. 😉
Timing markets is tough. If you can find an analyst who can prove he said in 2006 flee the markets because the country is financed by unregulated CDS you have a keeper. There aren’t many.
With the federal government financing capitalization of the economy, private capital will never have a fair shake. Only when Glass-Steagall like regulations return will investing become safe again. -
We watched Vegas and liked it. Scrutinized the vehicles and clothing styles and found them to be authentic. We were in college in the 60s. Like Dennis Quaid whatever he’s in.
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Audrey and Rex Harrison were a great pair in the movie musical “My Fair Lady”. I used to watch that Oscar-winning musical over and over again. What a great movie.
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